The Need To Be Number One – Insights Into Freedom Series, Part 2

Nobody wants to be the second best. Not everyone can always be at the top, but humans have the intrinsic desire to be number one. But along life’s journey, we often miss the point. For one reason or another, we lose our driving force and eventually fail.

Inside this second video on my Insights Into Freedom Series, I talk about my own need to be number one and how this passion has propelled me towards my personal success and freedom.

However, I also discuss how this desire can give you false confidence and can become a strong force that will bring you down.

Watch this video and know how to properly balance your need to be number one with keeping your integrity and character for long term success.

I’d like to know your thoughts and experiences about this insight. Please leave your comments below so we can learn from each other.

Talk soon!

Gideon Shalwick

Transcript Of Today’s Video

Inside this video I want to share with you the next key insight that I learned as a teenager while I was doing my athletics. In the previous one I talked about the Power of Repetition and how that helped me become very successful.

In fact, I became so successful that I became the number one best athlete in the country for my event. In fact, some of the meetings and events I went to, I was the “Athlete of the Event”.

That brought me on to the next insight. That was the NEED TO BE NUMBER ONE. At the back of all these stuff, everything that was driving me — I had this key need or want, or whatever you may want to call it, the desire to be number one.

Number two wasn’t good enough for me. I’m not sure what made me do that, but that was something that developed intrinsically inside of me — I wanted to be number one!

I think if you have number one as your driving force, it doesn’t mean you have to push other people down. You can pick, for example, a very specialized niche where you’re the number one in your niche. But you also compliment other people in whatever you’re doing.

There’s one key downfall with being number one. I’ve been able to get to the number one spot now with a number of different things in my life. The first thing was in academics to some degree. Then it was in the athletics field, I became number one there.

The trouble with becoming number one is that it’s extremely easy to get arrogant and to think that you’re God’s gift to the world. That becomes troublesome. Confidence is good but false confidence is not a good thing; it’s arrogance!

You need to be very careful when you become very good at something. In fact, when you become the number one person or company or organization in doing something, it’s very easy to become complacent and arrogant in thinking that you’re invincible.

That’s something to keep in mind. It’s great to have that desire to be number one, but as you become more popular and more successful or whatever else, keep in mind that arrogance can make you fall. It can be very dangerous. In fact, nobody likes arrogant people anyway!

If you stay humble, stick to your roots, keep your feet on the ground, then your success will be a lot more long term.

That’s the second key insight that I wanted to share with you.

Inside the next video. I’ll share a little bit about the financial model that I was using during my teenage years — sort of the shooting star model. I’ll share with you inside the next video what that looked like and why that was not a great model for having ultimate freedom in your life.

About Gideon Shalwick

Gideon Shalwick is a YouTube and video marketing expert, and has figured out how to get a TON of attention using online video (with one YouTube channel reaching 10 million views!), and today, he's built a following of over 100,000 people for his business ventures, and 60,000+ people on this very blog, where he shares some of his most powerful video marketing strategies.

A bit of psychology on relating to personal success: people who claim their success is due to hard work are better received by others than those who claim talent. Hard work can be repeated, talent cannot, and while people admire talent they also seem to resent an inability to achieve similar results. You don’t win friends with salad, or talent 😉

Good video Gideon. A bit of insight. I already know your material and am sold on it. I give people your info all the time. And I notice in this video you are looking down and to your left often (to read notes maybe?).

This is distracting and takes away your power. I don’t have a problem with it, since I’m already familiar with you. But If this was my first time seeing you, it could be a credibility issue even if a subconscious one.

Here’s some﻿ breaking news for you: No one cares about your teenage years! Seriously, why have you taken us on this self-indulgent trip down memory lane? You are not famous enough for us to give a darn about your childhood.

I’m really enjoying the RVB mini-course for its engaging, educational content (awesome job and thanks!), but these videos fall short. What bothers me is the vagueness (What was your “event”? When else have you become number one?). Without specific details the credibility of the rest of the information goes way south.

I look forward to more thought-provoking, real insightful content in the future – the stuff everyone knows you for!

Interesting. Recently I was a guest speaker at private college. I gave an inspirational / informational speech. I raised over $70,000.00 for my college education from grants and scholarships. The school’s president told I needed someone to promote myself because I was too humble. I feel too much bragging can lead to arrogance, but at the same time it does also seem very helpful for promoting.

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